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  1. Department of Pediatrics, CHILDS Trust Medical Research Foundation, Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital, Chennai, India

    Venkateswari Ramesh & Janani Sankar

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Puducherry, India

    Podhini Jegadeesan & Thirunavukkarasu Arun Babu

  3. Department of Medical Imaging, School of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences and School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Teng-Fu Tsao

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

    Yu-Hua Chao

  5. Pediatric TB Clinic, B J Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai, India

    Ira Shah

  6. Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Suresh Kumar Angurana & Savita Verma Attri

  7. Department of Pediatrics, AIIMS, New Delhi, 110 029, India

    Satish K. Shah & Rakesh Lodha

  8. Department of Pediatrics, Karuna Medical College, Palakkad, India

    G. Karthikeyan

  9. Department of Neonatology, JIPMER, Pondicherry, India

    B. Vishnu Bhat

  10. Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai, India

    Hasmukh Chapsi Gala & Amol Madave

  11. Departments of Pediatrics, Chandigarh, India

    Vidushi Mahajan

  12. PGMIER and GMCH-32, Chandigarh, India

    Shiv Sajan Saini

  13. Pediatric TB Clinic, Department of Pediatrics, BJ Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai, India

    Manju Kumari & Ira Shah

  14. Department of Pediatrics, JIPMER, Pondicherry, India

    Sriram Krishnamurthy & Anbazhagan Jagadeesh

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Correspondence to Venkateswari Ramesh, Thirunavukkarasu Arun Babu, Yu-Hua Chao, Ira Shah, Savita Verma Attri, Rakesh Lodha, G. Karthikeyan, Hasmukh Chapsi Gala, Shiv Sajan Saini, Manju Kumari or Sriram Krishnamurthy.

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Ramesh, V., Sankar, J., Jegadeesan, P. et al. Correspondence. Indian Pediatr 54, 157–166 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-017-1023-4

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